Jokes on them i've been cheating on this game with my location as some random places for a decade and lot of people have been doing this too.
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lol this is a crazy
OK so instead of tracking journalists with NSO spyware and murdering them,
they won't even have to install NSO anymore.
prepare to see news reports of many more mysterious murders, and obvious assassinations.
Next up, Saudi Arabia buys the Samsung Galaxy and Google Pixel smartphone lines. Pokemon Go comes installed in the system partition for free with 1000 free PokeCoins, how generous!
Too much detail. Needs more jpg
I don’t see as any worse, necessarily. For all I know, Saudi Arabia was previously buying the data from Niantic piecemeal.
Forbes, 2016: How Niantic Is Profiting Off Tracking Where You Go While Playing 'Pokémon GO'
While true, I felt (if misguided) more comfortable with my data under California data protection laws than Saudi Arabia.
As a European, I never feel comfortable with my data under any US state's data protection laws.
Yeah, but we can't have real data privacy laws in the US. Won't you think of the shareholders?
They've gotten rich off of spying on you wholesale and selling the information to anybody with cash.
It would be rude and un-American to ask them to stop profiting off of morally bankrupt practices. Plus, they'd just say no and they own the government too.
Pikmin Bloom too
Booooo. That sucks.
I was never into Pokemon before this app but this game was fun just finding new discoveries even in my own city.
Luckily geocaching is still a thing!
Too bad it is $30/year for the app to work.
Now that sounds like the perfect replacement for Pokémon Go for me, which means it's an app I'll install as a way to motivate me to go walk outside and then feel guilty because I just don't.
I can't believe Saudi Arabia are nationalising Pokemon Go when the UK won't even nationalise regional water monopolies. Honestly these things were never great for privacy and given the state of things I'm not sure I'm more concerned about a Saudi entity tracking me than a US one.
Not good news for gay Pokemon fans in that country though.
Gotta catch them all!
In the end all that changes is a Saudi company on NSA checks instead of a US one.
Business ethics? Meh, just profits, just profits.
Unregulated Capitalism.
Always has been, and nothing will continue to be done about it.
Waiting for them to further push monetization schemes. I'll bet on stat boosters and shiny rate enhancers for $$.
First they came for my event pikachus, then they came for my shiny legendaries...
F
Saudi Arabia really likes to invest in dead tech.
They don't care about the tech, they care about the data.